70AD: A Roman army, under General Titus, occupied and plundered Jerusalem.

1191: During the third Crusade, Richard I of England defeated the Kurdish-born Muslim leader Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf.

1701: England, Germany and Netherlands signed an anti-French covenant.

1838: Grace Darling, daughter of a lighthouse keeper, rescued the crew of the Forfarshire, shipwrecked near Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast.

1888: Weighing just 2lb 7oz, Edith Eleanor McLean was the first baby to be placed in an incubator, at State Emigrants Hospital, Ward’s Island, New York.

1902: In Australia, the nation observed a “day of humiliation” and prayed for rain during the Federation Drought in which 52 million sheep died and the wheat crop was all but lost. It rained three days later.

1923: Interpol was founded in Vienna.

1936: The last surviving member of the Thylacine species (also known as the Tasmanian wolf), died in Hobart Zoo.

1940: London blitz started when German aircraft bombed the docks.

1947: Battles took place between Muslims and Hindus in New Delhi, India.

1950: An area of sodden moss the size of a football pitch collapsed into Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery, Ayrshire, trapping 129 miners 720ft underground. In a huge rescue operation via old workings at Bank Colliery, 116 men were saved, but 13 miners and a rescue worker died.

No settlement has yet been arrived at an connection with the strike of plate-glass workers in Edinburgh and Leith Flint Glass Works. We understand that a deputation of the men has interviewed Sir George Askwith on the subject of the award of a bonus made by him.

The men are willing to accept Sir George Askwith‘s award, and the deputation was in consultation as to the question of the acceptance of the award by the masters.

The deputation, we understand, was informed that the Industrial Deparment of the Board of Trade has no power to compel masters to accept an award. The Edinburgh Trades Council at a meeting on Saturday asked the British Trades Union Congress now in session at Bristol to take up the matter, with special reference to the question of any introduction of foreign labour to fill the places.